[ QUOTE ] now a days there is so little to inspire people that at times you get a feeling of despair and cheap forms of escaping reality will become even more popular. [/ QUOTE ] Despair can be a source of inspire. I personally have never really been interested in most forms of "escapism." I've never like comics or any…
You'd probably want to study your inspiration material, what sort of style do you want? Hand painted style is quite general and there's many types of different hand painted art styles (warcraft, zelda BoTW, borderlands, team fortress 2 ; all have varying styles). Make a mood board with references and inspiration to get an…
Most of info has already been mentioned here so I'll just drop my 2 cents of what I know can be successful: Get a solid art foundation, no matter what you do that is the most important. Learn the tools. Dont follow the popular genres that others cover in their portfolios. Look outside of popular media like games and films…
Hi everyone, I have been playing with Enligthen myself in Unity 5 ( beta ) after being inspired by Koola, parts of Enligthen are amazing the realtime stuff is lovely ( can't really cast shadows or anything ) Being able to change materials and such without rebaking allows for a lot of fast iteration and playing, especially…
Nice artstation! You should check out this work that won the rookies, it is an excellent way to present work and you can learn a lot. I am at the beginning of working on something inspired by him, so I hope you find this useful too. https://www.artstation.com/artwork/lRzLme
If you're referring too content under Creative Commons licensing? then firstly I do recommend making yourself aware of their various permissive options. or just some random thing posted online, then simple courtesy still dictates according credit (design inspiration...etc) whether specified or not.
Oh man, superb work, @tomsanders1993! Love the atmosphere you were able to capture in the whole piece, and I've enjoyed seeing your updates, they've been great inspiration. I'm still probably about a day off myself but I'm pushing to get finished up.
You don't have to start from nothing even if you're creating original art. You can get inspiration from the world around you. The best example of this is the work of Eric Guez. He transforms everyday objects into spaceships. like this: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/W28xxv
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wziE0AYCoo I definitely was inspired to do my greybox from this awesome video by Polygon Academy since I am still a beginner who is trying to get organized and disciplined enough to produce a finished polished environment. Gonna keep working at this.
Man I love your thread. Really inspiring work! I'm quite new to 3d and would like to get in into it more over summer. Thinking of trying to do some dota2 stuff :) looking at what you do really gets me motivated. Thanks for sharing!